Summary
A top global alternative asset manager is seeking a Trade Support Analyst to join its Convertible & Derivative Arbitrage team in New York. This is a highly visible opportunity to work closely with traders and cross-functional teams while supporting complex, market-neutral strategies in a fast-paced environment.
Company Information:
A leading global alternative asset manager with a diversified investment platform spanning multi-strategy, credit, real estate, and structured products across major financial markets.
Job Description:
- Responsible for trade capture, trade blotter reconciliations and resolution of exceptions.
- Responsible for daily reconciliation of cash and position.
- Reviewing, allocating and confirming bond, equity, options, OTC trades with counterparties in DTC/Euroclear/ICE/MarkitWire/GTSS/CTM/ALERT.
- Send out daily trade fails and unmatched report to front office.
- Confirm and settle trades with custodians, resolve failing and unmatched trades.
- Look at existing processes and relationships and make suggestions on how they could be changed to improve end to end operational support.
- Work on projects relating to system/process enhancements and re-engineering of operational workflows.
- Responsible for ad-hoc requests (i.e. Equity unit split, PIPE settlement processing, Physical settlements etc.
Requirements / Qualifications:
- Undergraduate Degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; prior experience sitting with traders a plus.
- Knowledge of DTC/Euroclear, Bloomberg, ICELink, ALERT/CTM, SWIFT, MarkitWire, TriOptima.
- Experience with fixed income, derivatives, equity products, FX, and trade life cycle management.
- Ability to coordinate and work across operational teams on system enhancements.
